ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1111, 30 September 1873, Page 2

ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.

We are not alone in our complaints against the Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency. The "YVanganui Chronicle of the 22nd instant writes : "We made some caustic remarks in reference to the way the business of this agency is being conducted, and on the occasion of the late Auckland fire we blamed the General Manager at Wellington for carelessness in not sending us the news. He writes in explanation, and encloses a telegram from the Auckland agent stating full particulars had been sent of the disaster to all morning journals. The latter gentleman had better amend his list of morning journals as we never got the telegrams referred to. Some of the stuff sent to us as news is downright nonsense, and would be amusing had we not to pay wire charges for it. We are told one day that a show of entire horses is to take place at Christchurch; and on another that Good i Templarism is spreading at Auckland, j and that a new Custom House is to be opened at Tauranga. What can have I elevated the spread of Good Templarism at Auckland in the Agent's estimation so much that he deems it of colonial! interest, We shall some day perhaps be told that some ungrammatical stump | orator with half the alphabet tacked to the end of his patronymic has delivered

an (h)address at Lilshington on the evils of (h)inteniperance, and that Bob the Swiper and D. T. Charlie have signed the pledge. Of course we should be pleased to hear of the occurrence, but not by telegraph. Telegrams are a heavy drag on newspaper proprietors, and the evil is on the increase. We don't object to pay for news, but we could scalp the Jniin with pleasure who would take such a mean advantage ef his position as agent at Fuddleton in the Bush as to make us pay wire charges for the information that a cricket match between the players of that interesting wilderness and those of some other equally important collection of habitable packing cases has been arranged for late in the season.